Browsing Program of Asian Studies by Title
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A Compromise for Control: Understanding North Korea's Private Market Economy
(Georgetown University, 2018)Free market enterprise embodies values of independent thinking and self-reliance, which are antithetical to the North Korean regime’s ideological values inherent to Marxist-Leninism. However, in recent years, the Kim Jong-un ... -
A Lilliputian Tethers Gulliver: State Governments in Taiwan’s Foreign Policy Towards the US
(Georgetown University, 2019)Despite severing official ties in 1979, Taiwan’s relationship with the United States remains robust. However, little research has been done into the methods Taiwan employs to maintain the support of the United States, which ... -
The Alliance Dilemma: A Stronger Japan and Regional Stability
(Georgetown University, 2014)This paper is an attempt to explain the United States's puzzling silence on Japan's potential development of autonomous strike capability. I argue that this is due to the U.S.'s fear of entrapment vis-à-vis Japan, which ... -
An Exploitable Theory: Thucydides' Trap Model Perceived by the Chinese Government
(Georgetown University, 2020)This thesis examines the model of Thucydides' Trap and its effect on current international relations. Answering the question that why China and the United States, two supposed parties in Thucydides' Trap model, react ... -
Analysis on the Driving Factors behind the 2000 Inter-Korea Summit
(Georgetown University, 2016)Though the Korean peninsula finally found itself to be liberated from the Japanese colonial rule as the World War II came to an end, Korea was divided and the division became more permanent as the peninsula went through ... -
Anti-Americanism as a Force in Australian Foreign Policy: The Vietnam War and Australia's Shift from America to Southeast Asia
(Georgetown University, 2023)Previous accounts of Australia’s foreign relations have emphasized the continuity and robustness of the alliance with the United States. This article challenges that convention by documenting the intensification of ... -
Anti-Japanese Sentiment in South Korea and Its Impact on Foreign Policymaking
(Georgetown University, 2021)The article investigates the influence of South Korean public opinion on the aggravating relationship between the two democratic countries, Japan and South Korea, by using the Stata program. The article challenges the ... -
Becoming Electable: The Causes of the Successes and Failures of Opposition Parties in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
(Georgetown University, 2018)In the past twenty years, opposition parties in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have been experiencing different levels of success in elections, despite similarities in the three countries’ institutions (particularly the ... -
Between Dokdo and Takeshima Lie the Liancourt Rocks: Explaining the U.S. Relationship to the South Korea-Japan Territorial Dispute
(Georgetown University, 2023)The dispute over the Liancourt Rocks, referred to as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, remains a festering wound in the bilateral South Korea-Japan relationship. The United States, a steadfast treaty ally of both ... -
Beyond Realism: A Psychological Approach to Understanding Cambodia-China Relations and Its Implications for ASEAN Solidarity
(Georgetown University, 2019)The rise of China has brought about changes in the balance of power in Southeast Asia, and the realist approach to foreign policy cannot explain why some Southeast Asian countries are balancing the increasing economic and ... -
Brunei's Preference for British Protection: Ontological Insecurity after the 1962 Rebellion
(Georgetown University, 2015)Brunei has historically relied on Britain for protection from internal and external threats. Even today, there is a battalion of Gurkhas and British officers resident in Brunei. This research paper seeks to explain Brunei’s ... -
"By Means of Sports": U.S.-Japan Baseball Exchange and the Construction of Post-War Japanese Identity
(Georgetown University, 2020)Scholarship has recognized that a shared passion for baseball between the United States and Japan helped facilitate reconciliation between the two states after World War II, but not enough focus has been put on the role ... -
Cautious Cooperation: Chinese Perspectives of U.S.-China Crisis Management
(Georgetown University, 2021)Crisis management is but one example of U.S.-China security cooperation that has been a significant factor in U.S. strategic thinking on the Asia-Pacific region. Most English-language studies of U.S.-China crisis management ... -
China's Crackdown on North Korean Refugees: North Korean Provocations Intensify Border Control
(Georgetown University, 2018)What domestic and external conditions explain why the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at times intensifies its crackdown on North Korean border crossers? With the 1986 bilateral repatriation agreement between the PRC and ... -
China's Good Muslims: The Hui
(Georgetown University, 2018)In this paper, I answer why the People’s Republic of China (PRC) allows Hui Muslims relative freedom to practice and participate in religious activities, despite the Chinese Communist Party’s wariness of religion–particularly ... -
China’s Behavior in Maritime Dispute with its Neighbors: The Double-edged Sword Model
(Georgetown University, 2015)This paper presents the “double-edged sword model” as a theoretical explanation for China’s puzzling behavior in maritime disputes with its neighbors. This paper argues that two factors are salient in determining a state’s ... -
China’s Decision to Deploy HYSY-981 in the South China Sea: Bureaucratic Politics with Chinese Characteristics
(Georgetown University, 2015)This paper sheds light on developing a hybrid analytical construct by combining Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) theory and modifications which are based on China. It employs the bureaucratic politics model to China’s ... -
The Chinese Communist Party’s Sensitivity to Legitimacy and its Rush for Hydropower
(Georgetown University, 2015)This paper seeks to explain why China suddenly sped up its hydropower development on trans-boundary rivers, despite neighboring countries and environmental activists’ opposition and the fact that it did not have any ... -
Chinese Investments in Africa: What's Driving the Surge?
(Georgetown University, 2023)As history has shown, competition between global and regional powers almost certainly spills over into neighboring countries. Middle and smaller powers become arenas for direct or proxy competition. The U.S.-China competition ... -
THE COMFORT WOMEN AGREEMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIVATIONS THAT LED TO PARK GEUN-HYE’S ACQUIESCENCE
(Georgetown University, 2017)Since normalization in 1965, bilateral relations between Japan and South Korea have been perennially mired in historical acrimony. However, in December 2015, the South Korean and Japanese Foreign Ministries consummated ...
